MOPS Meeting Tomorrow!

Hi ladies!  Just a reminder that we have a MOPS meeting tomorrow night at 6:00 PM!  Also, please remember that we're currently partnering with the AWANA group, so if you bring your kids they'll be participating in that program.  If you haven't brought them to AWANA's before, don't worry the leaders will help get them signed up and direct the kids where they need to go.  Our good friend Delinda Neville will be coming to speak on Dominos – Depression/Perfectionism/Post Partum!  AND we'll be making our no sew aprons!!! 

Here's the lineup for group responsibilities:

* Setup - Red

* Meal - Blue

* Cleanup - Yellow

Also, here's a few reminders about some items of our special projects!

 

*  Freezer meal recipes ~ Please gather at least one freezer meal recipe and bring it to the next meeting for her to share in the newsletter and help us all build our supply of freeze meals this spring to be prepared for summer.

*  No Sew Bandana Aprons (we'll be making at tomorrow's meeting) ~ Bandana, Ribbon (5 yards, 1-1.5 inch grosgrain), Iron, Towel

*  Service project (delivering toys to our local hospital for children who have to visit the ER)~ Here's a list of items you can bring:

   Toys (not too loud)

   Stuffed animals
   Crayons
   Coloring books
   Activity books
   Books
   Blankets
   *all need to be new, have original tags and be in original packaging
   **you can also donate money and items will be purchased

I can't wait to see you ladies tomorrow evening and hope you can join us!

Blessings,

Krystal 

Making Homemade Pies Tomorrow!

Ladies ~ Just a reminder that we have a MOPS Meeting tomorrow evening at 5:30 PM!  Don't forget to read chapters 4-6 of MomSense.  Also, we'll be making homemade pies for you to take home and bake for your family!

If you have them, please bring the following items:

*  Pie Plate
*  Rolling Pin
*  Paring knife or peeler
*  Apple peeler and corer (if you have one)

Hope to see you tomorrow!  It should be a fun evening!!!

Pumpkin Carving Devotional

At our recent meeting Jamie Armstrong shared a wonderful devotion tied to pumpkin carving!  I'm planning on doing this with my kids this weekend and I wanted to post the devotion she shared in case anyone else would like to do it as well!  This is shared from http://www.reallifeblog.net/how-is-carving-a-pumpkin-like-being-a-christian/.

Being a Christian is just like a pumpkin! Let me try to explain, I brought this pumpkin here to help me illustrate what I mean. (Proceed to carve the pumpkin.)

First, God picks you from the pumpkin patch and brings you in from the field. The Bible says He selects us out of the world. We are in the world, but no longer of the world.

He then washes all the “dirt” off the outside that we received from being around all the other pumpkins. All the outside influences of our former life must be cleaned up. Old things are passed away and all things are become new.

Then, He carefully removes all the “yucky stuff” called “sin” out from the inside. Look at this! Yuk! Sin will not have such internal power. He then changes us from the inside out by the Power of His Word. That’s why it is important to go the church and learn about God’s Word.

He carefully removes all those seeds of doubt, hate, greed, and fear. He replaces them with the seeds of faith, hope and love. After Jesus is invited inside, you begin to experience the changing power of God’s love in your life.

Then He carves a new smiling face. Our countenance is changed by the power of His presence in our life. We then become so grateful. It can even show on our face!

Now we are going to light this candle inside. Look! This pumpkin now reflects the light from inside out. So too, when Jesus, who is called the Son of Light, lives inside of us, He shines through our life for all to see. We can let His light reflect through us to reveal His presence. “Let your light so shine before men that they may be able to see your good works and glorify your Father, who is in heaven.”

So you see, we Christians are really like this pumpkin! We will never be the same with Jesus inside of us. We can say like this jack-o-lantern, “Thy presence, my light!”

Lets now say a short prayer:

Father God, thank You for asking us to be Your children.
We want to be more like Jesus.
We want others to see Your light shining in our lives.
Help us to open our hearts to You.
Take away all our bad attitudes.
Give us Your light and love inside.
In Jesus' Name we pray.
Amen 

Care Packages for Soldiers

What a blessing it was for our MOPS Moms and our kids to join together to gather items, package and send care packages to soldiers who are currently serving our country!  This is definitely something we will do again in the future!  We also want to thank the many CHS employees who donated items to be included in the packages!

Also, a huge thank you to Gini Adams for helping us with the list of items, sharing your stories about your very own soldiers receiving care packages and for helping us learn how to maximize the space in our care packages!  Seeing your passion for serving our soldiers truly touched our hearts!

Here's some pictures to share a little 

about our evening!

Our kids colored pictures to include in our care packages!

 

 Mom's getting started preparing the items to go into the boxes!

 We were able to put together 10 very full boxes to bless our soldiers!

 We also included a note from a Mom saying 'Thank you'!

 

And here's one of our completed boxes!  We hope that these packages will bless the soldiers as much as it blessed us putting them together!

 And of course we had some cleaning up to do when we were done and had a couple little helpers!

 Thanks again to ALL who helped make this project possible and to our soldiers and their families we leave you with this:

"May the Lord bless you
   and keep you;
May the Lord make his face shine on you
   and be gracious to you;
May the Lord turn his face toward you
   and give you peace."

Empty Egg Cartons Needed!

Ladies, don't forget we're gathering empty egg cartons for a creative activity this spring!  Please feel free to bring them to any meeting and we'll be happy to store them until we need them!

Thank you so much!

Homemade Play Dough

Hi ladies!  Several of you have asked for the recipe for the play dough that I brought for the kiddos to play with during our last meeting, so here it is:

Cream of Tarter Playdough Recipe

Ingredients:
2 cups of plain flour
2 cups of coloured water
1 Tbsp. of cooking oil
1 tsp. cream of tartar
1 cup of salt

Directions:
Place all of the ingredients in a medium size or large pan. Cook slowly on medium-high and stir it until the playdough thickens. Keeps best in the fridge in plastic containers. This is simular to the traditional playdough recipe.

This recipe takes less than 10 minutes.

I found it at http://www.playdoughrecipe.com/, they have a LOT of different types of play dough recipes! 

Enjoy!

Meeting Thursday!

Ladies, join us Thursday as we introduce our theme 'MomSense' as well as our book study! 

You can check out this video to get a little idea of what this years theme is all about!  

Edie Wacker will also be doing a demonstration on food preservation!  She'll be expanding on her presentation she gave us last year!

And of course there will be food, fellowship and childcare!

Hope to see you there!

AND DON'T FORGET MEETINGS START AT 5:30 NOW AND END AT 7:30!